Richard Kimball

Abt 1595 - 1675  (80 years)

• Name	Richard Kimball  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	Abt 1595	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LZVC-8XC  [1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42]
  Immigration	10 Apr 1634	Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
  Occupation	1638	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
  	Millwright, wheelwright
  Death	22 Jun 1675	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [1, 43, 44]
  Burial	Aft 22 Jun 1675	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [45]
  	Old Burying Ground
  Person ID	I45623	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Ursula Scott,   b. Abt 1595, England d. Bef 23 Oct 1661, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age < 66 years)
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Kimball,   b. 18 Jun 1618, Suffolk, England d. 17 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F25134	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He brought his family to America in 1634 in the ship Elizabeth. The leaders of a new Colony asked him to come as Wheelwright (made wagon wheels) to Watertown, Mass. He owned considerable property in what is now Cambridge but was then Watertown. He was proclaimed freeman May 6, 1635. He was soon invited to settle in Ipswich, Mass. where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1637 he was given a lot and forty acres of land beyond the North River. In 1653 he was one of the three town surveyors. In 1664 he owned 43 acres on Plumb Island. Before coming to this country he married Ursula Scott in Rattlesden about 1611. She was the granddaughter of Sir William Scott and Lady Mary Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham. While it is true indeed that many generations of descendants and other interested parties have literally spent hours and days and weeks and years striving to find reliable documentation, the parentage of Richard Kimball is still unproven. It is believed by some that he was the son of Henry Kimball LVYY-88H or of Richard Kimball MK82-PD8. . . . . . . . . . . According to NEHGR 28:241 . . . "Richard Kimball and Ursula, his wife, came in the Elizabeth of Ipswich, in 1634... With them came Martha Scott, aged 60, and Thomas Scott, aged 40, who were probably the mother and brother of Richard's wife as he calls Martha Scott his mother in records." Anderson's Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, p 157 says this: "MARRIAGE: (1) By 1615 Ursula Scott, daughter o Henry Scott of Rattlesden, Suffolk (in his will of 24 September 1623, Henry Scott included bequests to 'Abigail Kemball my grandchild,' to 'my grandchild Henry Kemball' and to 'grandchildren Elizabeth and Richard Kemball [NEHGR 52:248, citing 'Bury Wills, Book Pearle, L., 117"; Phoebe Tilton Anc 117-20]." SOURCE :: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kimball-60

  
  

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This source was created for free with http://RecordSeek.com Richard Kimball 39 of Rattlesden County, Watertown, Suffolk Mrs. Ursula Kimball ( ) Henry Kimball 15 Elizabeth Kimball 13 Richard Kimball 11 Mary Kimball 9 Martha Kimball 5 John Kimball 3 Thomas Kimball 1 [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Book Title: A family history : recording the ancestors of Russell Snow Hitchcock : this includes the ancestral. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61157/records/480124 [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. 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Richard and his first wife Mary’s Children John – 1650-1721 Samuel – 1651 – 3 Oct 1716 Thomas – 12 Nov 1657 – 16 Oct 1732 Ephraim – 18 Feb 1660 – 16 Jan 1732 Caleb – 9 Apr 1665 – 25 Jan 1726 Christopher Richard – 7 July 1761 – 8 Oct 1672 I think this a typed error and should be 7 July 1661 as the death date is before he was born and the birth order is more logical. Christopher probapably born between 1662 and 1664. Children of Richard and Mary Gott (his 2nd wife) Nathaniel – 1676 – 7 Sept 1735 P.52 Thomas Kimball (1657 – 1730) married Elizabeth the daughter of Anthony Potter. She died 4 Dec 1732. Thomas and Elizabeth’s children Thomas – 1683 Daniel – 1684 Richard – 18 Sep 1686 – 1717 Elizabeth – died 15 Nov 1699 Lydia – 15 Apr 1695 Edmund – 18 Apr 1699 – 24 Apr 1768 Paul – 21 May 1703 – 1755 P.70 Thomas Kimball (1683) married Hannah Porter. Their children Daniel – 27 June 1710 Elizabeth – 8 June 1712 Lucy – 7 March 1714 Thomas – 23 May 1719 Lydia – 31 Dec 1721 Hannah – 1 Mar 1724 Mehitable – 25 Dec 1726 – 6 Aug 1666 p. 118 Thomas Kimball (1619-1792) married Mary Ingalls. Their children were Mary – bap 29 Apr 1744 Hannah – 24 Aug 1746 Lydia – bap 23 Sep 1747 Lydia – bap 16 Oct 1748 Mehitable - bap 6 May 1749 Thomas – bap 28 Jun 1752 Elizabeth – bap 17 Jun 1755 Samuel – bap 11 Jan 1756 Daniel – bap 17 July 1757 Nathanial – bap 30 Jul 1758 Lucy – bap 18 May 1760 [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Book Title: History and Genealogy of the Rix family of America : containing biographical sketches and genealogies of both males and females. http://search.ancestry.com/collections/61157/records/3267791 [S290] FamilySearch.org, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-FZV1 : Wed May 14 07:28:06 UTC 2025), Entry for Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott, from 0163 to 1898. Very misleading. Caption implies they were married in Littleton. 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